October 31, 201015 yr A firm handshake is usually seen as a good thing in business and even in politics. Not so much in South Florida. A candidate for the Broward County School Board wants the cops to lock up her opponent after what she claims was akin to battery after a recent debate. Jaemi Levine filed a complaint with the Broward Sheriff's Office claiming David Thomas squeezed her hand so hard during a post-debate handshake Tuesday that it now hurts. ------------- So which candidate do you think will lose the most votes over this? The brute or the whiner?
October 31, 201015 yr The poster who thinks that provincial US politics is a suitable subject for Bedlam at Thaivisa?
November 1, 201015 yr Author The poster who thinks that provincial US politics is a suitable subject for Bedlam at Thaivisa? Sigh. If you want to think of this as a thread about US politics, that's up to you. You are free to stop reading it. You don't seem to complain when something is posted about a crazy lawsuit in the US, or how Brits like to name their kids. However, I didn't post this so that we can discuss Miami (hardly provincial by any means) politics. Here we get one politician making a criminal complaint about receiving a strong handshake. Even if it were a big, mean man, hurting a woman's hand, do you thiink it's a reason to get the police involved? Ridiculous.
November 1, 201015 yr Maybe she has the "liberal gene", which is an existing thread topic. I imagine that it's mostly the hawks that file frivolous lawsuits. Perhaps not in this case? Not knowing who's who in American politics, but guessing from your comment that she's a lefty, I can only say that he must be an agressive warmongering male with deep-seated woman-dominance aspirations, a possible wife beater, and a bully rightist. Hhe probably pulled the wings off flies as a child, and burnt ants with a magnifying glass. But to answer your question, I reckon it will lose her some votes, unless she wins her case, because, to be fair, it IS quite possible to deliberately and significantly hurt someone with a hand-crusher shake.
November 1, 201015 yr Maybe she has the "liberal gene", which is an existing thread topic. I imagine that it's mostly the hawks that file frivolous lawsuits. Perhaps not in this case? Not knowing who's who in American politics, but guessing from your comment that she's a lefty, I can only say that he must be an agressive warmongering male with deep-seated woman-dominance aspirations, a possible wife beater, and a bully rightist. Hhe probably pulled the wings off flies as a child, and burnt ants with a magnifying glass. But to answer your question, I reckon it will lose her some votes, unless she wins her case, because, to be fair, it IS quite possible to deliberately and significantly hurt someone with a hand-crusher shake. Now that post made me laugh out loud. You are a treat, Harry.
November 1, 201015 yr Maybe she has the "liberal gene", which is an existing thread topic. I imagine that it's mostly the hawks that file frivolous lawsuits. Perhaps not in this case? Not knowing who's who in American politics, but guessing from your comment that she's a lefty, I can only say that he must be an agressive warmongering male with deep-seated woman-dominance aspirations, a possible wife beater, and a bully rightist. Hhe probably pulled the wings off flies as a child, and burnt ants with a magnifying glass. But to answer your question, I reckon it will lose her some votes, unless she wins her case, because, to be fair, it IS quite possible to deliberately and significantly hurt someone with a hand-crusher shake. Now that post made me laugh out loud. You are a treat, Harry. I'm sincerely glad to have brightened your day chucky.
November 1, 201015 yr Author I didn't even notice the political parties of the two involved. But I did natually assume that the whiner was a Democrat and the one using too much force was a Republican.
November 1, 201015 yr The poster who thinks that provincial US politics is a suitable subject for Bedlam at Thaivisa? Isn't it a little late to get all selective about innocuous subjects that should be verboten in Outside the Box.
November 1, 201015 yr The poster who thinks that provincial US politics is a suitable subject for Bedlam at Thaivisa? Isn't it a little late to get all selective about innocuous subjects that should be verboten in Outside the Box. I agree with the sentiment of your post but, even so, there's a difference between discussing US politics that could affect all of us and the litigious nature of candidates for the 'Broward County School Board'. And yes, the election of someone to a county school board is provincial - about as provincial as it gets.
November 2, 201015 yr Author The poster who thinks that provincial US politics is a suitable subject for Bedlam at Thaivisa? Isn't it a little late to get all selective about innocuous subjects that should be verboten in Outside the Box. I agree with the sentiment of your post but, even so, there's a difference between discussing US politics that could affect all of us and the litigious nature of candidates for the 'Broward County School Board'. And yes, the election of someone to a county school board is provincial - about as provincial as it gets. I didn't even notice it was for a school board either. Talking about provincial - if you're from NYC, with a few exceptions, just about every place else on the planet is "provincial". But this topic still has some value to you because you keep coming back.
November 2, 201015 yr The poster who thinks that provincial US politics is a suitable subject for Bedlam at Thaivisa? Isn't it a little late to get all selective about innocuous subjects that should be verboten in Outside the Box. I agree with the sentiment of your post but, even so, there's a difference between discussing US politics that could affect all of us and the litigious nature of candidates for the 'Broward County School Board'. And yes, the election of someone to a county school board is provincial - about as provincial as it gets. I didn't even notice it was for a school board either. Talking about provincial - if you're from NYC, with a few exceptions, just about every place else on the planet is "provincial". But this topic still has some value to you because you keep coming back. That's because I'm naturally contrary
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